Opposition to them resulted in the highly controversial Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, authored by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson.

The film was a commercial success, but was highly controversial owing to its portrayal of African American men ( played by white actors in blackface ) as unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white women, and the portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan ( whose original founding is dramatized ) as a heroic force.

The decision was regarded as highly controversial in the local media.

* Dené – Caucasian superfamily: Based on the possible Caucasian link, some linguists, for example John Bengtson and Merritt Ruhlen, have proposed including Basque in the Dené – Caucasian superfamily of languages, but this proposed superfamily includes languages from North America and Eurasia, and its existence is highly controversial.

He did not grasp the cosmological implications of this fact, and indeed at the time it was highly controversial whether or not these nebulae were " island universes " outside our Milky Way.

Making a comedy about Hitler was seen as highly controversial, but Chaplin's financial independence allowed him to take the risk.

He was the travelling reporter for the highly acclaimed, but controversial, BBC mockumentary Ghostwatch, which tricked viewers into believing it was a live investigation into ghost sightings in a suburban home on Halloween night ( 1992 ).

The invitation proved to be highly controversial.

Psychologist Felicia Pratto and her colleagues have found evidence to support the idea that a high Social Dominance Orientation ( SDO ) is strongly correlated with conservative political views, and opposition to social engineering to promote equality, though Pratto's findings have been highly controversial.

On May 19, 1863, the electors of the City and County of San Francisco passed this bond by a vote of 6, 329 to 3, 116, in a highly controversial Special Election.

Freed's career ended when it was shown that he had accepted payola, a practice that was highly controversial at the time, resulting in his being fired from his job at WABC.

These instances of British troops killing Irish civilians would later be highly controversial in Ireland.

This was a highly controversial idea, as many Boston area sports fans consider Fenway Park to be sacred ground, and demolishing the old park would have caused a significant outcry ( as did the closure and later demolition of Tiger Stadium that same year after decades of grassroots efforts to try to save it ).

It was powered by the 4. 2 L Fairlane engine with a Colotti transaxle, the same power plant was used by the Lola GT and the single-seater Lotus 29 that came in a highly controversial second at the Indy 500 in 1963.

* Worst Actor: Richard Burton ( a highly controversial choice, considering the fact that he was Oscar-nominated many times, but made because Burton starred in so many bad films )

( Leopold's decision proved highly controversial.

This union was highly controversial among Scots, and increasingly so as the hoped-for economic revival was not immediately forthcoming.

Cloning of horses is highly controversial, and at the present time most mainstream breed registries will not accept cloned horses, though several cloned horses and mules have been produced.

While there is little scholarly debate about the existence of some of these differences, their causes remain highly controversial both within academia and in the public sphere.

This action was highly controversial.

From the time of their introduction, minimum wage laws have been highly controversial politically, and have received much less support from economists than from the general public.

Downey headed to Secaucus, New Jersey, where his highly controversial television program The Morton Downey Jr. Show was taped.

Although some of these patients improve following thymectomy, some patients experience severe exacerbations and the highly controversial concept of " therapeutic thymectomy " for patients with thymus hyperplasia is disputed by many experts, and efforts are underway to unequivocally answer this important question.

The Tory government was dividing the country and proving highly controversial as its monetarist economic policies to reduce inflation were contributing to a significant rise in unemployment which had helped plunge Britain's economy into recession earlier in 1980.

He finished out the decade of the 1970s with his controversial performance as Colonel Walter Kurtz in another Coppola film, Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ), a box office hit for which he was highly paid and that helped finance his career layoff during the 1980s.

Frank Lambert's lead cylinder recording for an experimental talking clock is often identified as the oldest surviving playable sound recording, although the evidence advanced for its early date is controversial.

The " School of Valparaíso " was in the 1960s and 1970s one of the most experimental, avant garde and controversial Architectural schools in the country.

His 2004 film, the controversial A Hole in My Heart, is more an experimental film than a traditional narrative, and he has said it is intentionally designed to be off-putting to the audience.

Erlandson continued to work as a producer and session musician, eventually forming the experimental group RRIICCEE with controversial artist, Vincent Gallo and Love began a solo career, releasing her debut, America's Sweetheart in 2004.

In 1898, Münsterberg wrote a controversial article entitled " The Danger from Experimental Psychology " in which he claims the impossible transfer of experimental results into successful teaching practices.

He requested a warning to be printed in Soviet central Communist newspaper, Pravda, which spoke directly of the film's experimental, controversial nature.

Henri Marie Coandă (; 7 June 1886 – 25 November 1972 ) was a Romanian inventor, aerodynamics pioneer and builder of an experimental aircraft, the Coandă-1910 described by Coandă in the mid-1950s as the world's first jet, a controversial claim disputed by some and supported by others.

Whereas the utility of prospective power analysis in experimental design is universally accepted, the usefulness of retrospective techniques is controversial.

Kenneth Anger ( born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemeyer ; February 3, 1927 ) is an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor and author of two controversial Hollywood Babylon books.

These prior claims are controversial and the first paper to claim the discovery of Josephson's effect, and to make the requisite experimental checks, was that of Anderson and Rowell.

According to an experimental proof from 2006 ( controversial results ), quantum dots of lead selenide can produce as many as seven excitons from one high energy photon of sunlight ( 7. 8 times the bandgap energy ).

This was the first experimental proof that an enzyme is a protein, a controversial question at the time.

The label's output is often controversial even among longstanding fans of free jazz and free improvisation, partly because some recent releases feature significant editing and overdubbing ( both were often looked down upon by earlier experimental musicians who thought that such recording studio antics somehow betrayed the ideal of live improvised music ), and also because much of the music released on Erstwhile has left behind most resemblances to earlier generations of free jazz and free improvisation.

In 1908, Münsterberg published his controversial book, On the Witness Stand ( 1908 ) which is a collection of magazine articles previously published by him where he discuses the many different psychological factors that can change a trial's outcome and pointed the way for rational and scientific means for probing the facts claimed by human witnesses by the application of experimental psychology to the administration of law.

Beard, with his partner A. D. Rockwell, advocated first electrotherapy and then increasingly experimental treatments for people with neurasthenia, a position that was controversial.

The Cantos has always been a controversial work, initially so because of the experimental nature of the writing.

Despite the experimental support for this hypothesis, it is very controversial and there are many critiques against it.

There has been interest in use of the so-called love hormone – oxytocin – during therapy sessions, although this is still largely experimental and somewhat controversial.

Considered by many as one of the most controversial Portuguese filmmakers of his generation, João César Monteiro marked his presence in Cinema with unclassifiable and polemic films, weaved with a particular, somewhat experimental and highly referential aesthetics, influence of his background has a film critic and a poet.

She finds that he has a long history of controversial experimental treatments and investigations into his practices.

Always controversial, some of Schelling's ideas in this direction are still considered of philosophical interest, even if the subsequent development of experimental natural science had a destructive impact on the credibility of the theories of his followers in Naturphilosophie.

This loan was controversial, as the only other operational laser at LLNL at the time, Beamlet ( a single experimental beamline for NIF ), had recently been sent to Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico.

Prophylactic antibiotic treatments for tics and OCD are experimental and controversial ; overdiagnosis of PANDAS may have led to overuse of antibiotics to treat tics or OCD in the absence of active infection.